History, politics and debate in glorious mid-Wales – weekend school programme for 2019
A lively weekend of presentations and debate, in comfortable surroundings, friendly company, good food and all in the glory of the mid-Wales landscape. Our programme for the Lloyd George Society weekend school has been announced. The school will take place at our usual welcoming venue, the Hotel Commodore in Llandrindod Wells on Saturday 16 and […]
David Lloyd George – The Truth Against the World
Three Prime Ministers held their parliamentary constituencies in Wales, David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald and James Callaghan. MacDonald and Callaghan today are rarely mentioned but Lloyd George’s name remains almost constantly on politicians’ lips in the UK and across the world. This was not just because he was ‘the man who won the war’. Lloyd […]
David Lloyd George – the Welshman Who Won the War
It is November 1918 and the reputation of David Lloyd George could not have been higher. His Conservative opposite number, Andrew Bonar Law, at one time said that he could be prime minister for life if he wanted to. Yet as we commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the ending of the First World War, […]
Want to buy a slice of Lloyd George history? One of his former homes is up for sale.
One of Lloyd George’s former homes, at Twyford in Berkshire, has gone up for sale at a cost of £2 million. This is a house where LG is said to have lived whilst serving as prime minister before nearby Chequers was owned by the government. When Chequers was purchased as a country retreat for the […]
Read Lloyd George’s speeches
The text of four of David Lloyd George’s speeches to Liberal Party conferences in the 1920s and 30s can now be accessed online through the website British Political Speech, The website contains speeches by leading British politicians going back to the late 19th century and as well as the four speeches made by Lloyd George […]
Lady Shirley Hooson – a tribute
Members of the Society will be saddened to learn of the death of Shirley Hooson on the 21st April 2018 at the age of 91. She had been a member of the Society for many years and, until suffering a debilitating stroke three years ago, had been a regular attender at the annual Weekend Schools […]
Photos from a four volume biography of Lloyd George published in 1913
J Hugh Edwards, was a supporter of David Lloyd George, a member of Cymru Fydd and later Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan and Accrington. In 1913 he published a multi-volume biography of Lloyd George, wth a short history of the Welsh people. It contains many photographs of people and places which were important in Ll.G’s […]
Tribute to a fine Scottish Liberal and former speaker at the weekend schools
Members of the Lloyd George Society will be sorry to learn of the death, on 28th July, of Dr. Alexander (Sandy) S. Waugh. Sandy Waugh was a noted historian of Liberalism in the UK, and spoke at the Society’s Weekend School in 2012. Sandy joined the Liberal Party in 1950, and must have been one […]
“The Cavalry of the Clouds” – David Lloyd George and the formation of the Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force was founded towards the end of the First World War, in April 1918. Lloyd George was of course prime minister and he was a highly appreciative of the military worth of the existing air forces and strongly supported the formation on a separate, independent service. In a real sense the RAF […]
Hear Lloyd George and Clement Davies speak
You can find all sorts of unexpected entertainments on Youtube but we have recently come across two old newsreel clips which will surely be of interest to Lloyd George Society members. First a newsreel from the general election of November 1935 in which Lloyd George urges voters to support candidates who are for peace, disarmament […]
